Slug holder



May 3,1927. I 1,627,398

E. G. MAGNUS ET AL SLUG HOLDER Filed June 16, 1924 DEVB 2:5'

Cl-HCVGO HT Q I72 vezzzan Patented May 3, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ELMER G. MAGNU'S ANDHENRY C. DOSCH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOBS 'IO INDIVIDUALIZING COMPANY OF ILLINOIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORA TION OF ILLINOIS.

. SLUG HOLDER.

Application filed June 16, 1924. Serial No. 720,227.

,rying a name, address and salutation for use in connection with form letter printing and the like.

.Prior to my invention, devices of this character have been provided by securing a plurality of linotype slugs together in various manners, such as by encircling bands, boxing-in and welding or riveting together. None of these have given entirely satisfactory results, for the reasons that it is diflicult tocontrol and handle slugs of this size, they require more storage space and v are costly. This can only be appreciated when it is understood that to facilitate use, these slugs must be of standard width, and that while the usual or average slug may require only four linesof type, other may require six to eight lines. The standard width must be the larger and the smaller must be filled in with blank slugs. mailing list may require thousands of these slugs and great quantities of type metal are thus required. Other attempts have been made to produce an address slug that would avoid the above difficulties, such as by printing an address or the lilreon a sheet of fibre and gutta percha suitably mounted in a rigid. frame, the operation of which is well known and it is believed requires no explanation her-e, and by punching or upsetting the desired characters from various metal or fibre plates, which leaves the 1etters unsupported and very weak. In the use of this form some ofthe letters are soon pushed back into the plane of the plate, others remain full. height. This will be evident when it is noted that the letter I has practically the same support as the letter M and is subjected to less than onehalfthe pressure in printing. While all of these constructions have been, to an extent, successful, they have not been entirely satisfactory, as uniform and well defined letters are possible only when solid type is used.

The principal object of this invention Is to provide a means that will facilitate the handling of type slugs in groups in an automatic or other printing device, and that will not require great quantites of type metal and space when stored.

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Numerous other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent as it is better understood from the following. description, which, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, discloses a preferred embodiment thereof.

Referring to the drawings, I Figure 1 is a front elevation of a grouping device in which my invention is embodied, showing a plurality of type slugs permanently. held therein in grouped re1ation;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device;

Fig. 3 perspective view, showing the form of the device prior to the position of the slugs therein; and

Fig. 4; is a perspective view of a type slug showing the beveled edges thereof adapted to fit beneath the retaining flanges of the holder.

As thus illustrated, the device comprises a metal body 21 having retaining flanges 22 at the ends thereof, said flanges being bent upwardly from the body at 23 and being turned inwardly at 2 f at an angle to provide a beveled retaining portion 25 adapted to fit over the beveled end 26 of a type slug 27, the bevel being either a fudge bevel, or of any other suitable form.

While it is possible to feed the slug in suitable guideways in a press such as by engaging the ends or sides of the slugs and various other means of providing flanges and lugs and securing the type thereto are possible, in the present instance, the sides of the body or plate 21 extend beyond the type to provide guides for engagement in suitable guidewa-ys and lugs 28 and 31 are provided at opposite sides of the body, being formed by cutting notches or slots 29 in the body and bending the material therebetween upwardly to provide stops against which the outermost slug engages. The lugs 28 are bent at right angles to the plate in the forn1- ing operation. The lugs 31 are left in horizontal position as shown in Fig. 3 until after the slugs are in position, and are then hent upward and against the slugs which are then held in. fixed position between the lugs 28 and 31 and the end flanges If it he desired to substitute or replace any or all of the slugs in order to change an address. for example, the lugs 28 or 31, or one of the flanges 22, may be bent downwardly to a horizontal position, thus permitting the removal and substitution of any or all of the slugs. It will he noted that as a substitute for the lugs 28 and 81, the plate 21 may he slotted inwardly of its edges and the metal slightly upset from the plane of the plate, or flanges of sufficient width may he pro- Vided to permit of bending and folding a part thereof back upon itself for any part of its length to provide aoutments.

In this form, type set-ups may be eeonominally stored and handled and may be readily fed by the automatic leeding mechanism ol a press, a great economy heing thus effected over the prevailing method of handling said slugs individually, and further economy being rendered possible in that the slugs, when grouped in the present device, may be less than type high, thus saving metal and storage space.

It is thought that the invention and many of its attendant advantages will be understood from the foregoing description, and it will be apparent that various changes may he n'iade in the form, construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, or sacrificing all of its material adwntages, the form liereinhetoro described heing merely a preferred en'ihodiinent tlareoi I claim:

1. A grouliiing device for type slugs, co1uprising a. metal plate having relaining flanges at its ends, each adapted to engage a plurality of slugs and guides at each side integral therewith, parts bent out of the plane of the plate to form ahutrnents adjacent one edge thereof and a plurality oi notches adjacent the opposite edge providing lugs therebetween, said lugs being adapted to be bent out of the plane of the plate into interlocking relation with a plurality of type slugs positioned thereon.

2. A grouping device for type slugs, c m prising, a metal plate having retaining flanges at its ends adapted for embracing type slugs and guide portions extending laterally theretron'i having portions thereof adapted to be bent from the plane of the plate to provide co-operating alntitnients lor holdii'ig the slugs in fixed position between said guides.

ELMER G. MAGNUS. HENRY C. BOSCH.

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